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Sweden and Norway were interested. Sweden's Foreign Minister Christian E. Günther spoke of "linked destinies," and the Conservative Speaker of Norway's Storting, Carl J. Hambro, hurried to Stockholm to discuss the pact. But facts were cruel and disruptive: Finland now lies in Russia's sphere, Sweden is geographically Germany's pawn, Norway's bare face is Britain's to slap. A mutual defense pact might therefore anger all three of the major powers. But since combined German-Russian wrath is much the greatest Scandinavian fear, the alliance would probably have...
...desperate (and perhaps last) attempt to save Northern Europe's neutrality Foreign Ministers Dr. Peter Munch of Denmark, Halvdan Koht of Norway, and Christian Günther of Sweden met at Copenhagen's Christiansborg Palace. The Foreign Minister of Finland, which is perforce no longer neutral, did not attend. As they met the Nazi press lectured them on how to be a good neutral: 1) follow the U. S. example and stop shipping to Britain; 2) quit the League of Nations; 3) stick to the recent neutrality proclamation of Sweden's Gustaf V (TIME...
...hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship's bottom. The hull settled into place to help block a Scapa inlet and avert another submarine slip-up shot like Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's on the Royal...
...Sandler's place last week stood tall, 53-year-old Christian E. Günther, one of Sweden's smoothest diplomatists. Onetime Minister to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, he has more recently served as Sweden's envoy to Norway. A playwright, novelist and poet, Foreign Minister Günther belongs to no political party, like all good diplomats has long cultivated the habit of keeping his mouth shut and his ears open. Unlike Mr. Sandier, he can scarcely be accused of being for or against anybody...
Germany further claimed, last week, another submarine blow to the Royal Navy: a cruiser either of the London (9,750-ton) class or the Dorsetshire or Norfolk (9,925 tons). The alleged striker: Lieut. Günther Prien, 31, Hero of Scapa Flow...